International aid groups call it the “contact line,” but the divide between government-controlled Ukraine and the separatist east is a 300-mile-long militarized border that regularly transforms into a battlefield—replete with gunfire, shelling and casualties.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Bloomberg: Bureaucracy and death stalk Ukraine’s ‘contact line’
People are having their personal belongings checked as they cross the contact line at the Mayorsk point of entry on Dec. 17, 2018.
